DR15 Tutorials
These pages provide detailed worked examples of SDSS data retrieval using the various interfaces provided. In addition, we provide discussions of how to access and read some of the unusual file types used in the survey, and perform certain operations, such as calibration.
Getting Started
Searching for Data
Downloading Data
Survey-specific examples
These tutorials provide concrete step-by-step instructions for accomplishing specific tasks commonly encountered in working with SEGUE, APOGEE, and MARVELS survey data. For more information about what each survey offers in DR12, see the pages in each survey's section of the DR12 documentation:
Click on one of the links below to go to one of the examples of how to access survey-specific data, contained in these Tutorials or in the survey-specific sections of the DR12 documentation.
Infrared spectra: APOGEE
- Selecting APOGEE data from catalogs:
- Get plates by location
- Get element abundances for all main survey stars
- Get stars with [Fe/H] < -2
- Get stars flagged as cluster members
- Find high proper motion stars
- Get stars from a specific cluster (e.g. M13)
- Get element abundances from each visit for stars with ≥ 6 visits
- Find stars with spectra from multiple SDSS surveys
- Find stars with SDSS photometry
